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granolamom
May 28, 2009 - 1:19pm
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rectocele
my experience is very boring. no symptoms at all. I stopped paying it any attention a long time ago. my rectocele developed after my cystocele.
but lets talk about the fear of cystocele....and IF you do develop a cystocele? or your uterus begins to move downward? what if? you'll put more effort into nauli or the ballet workout or whatever you find stabilizes it. and you will most likely be fine. its the fear thats getting to you right now.
what to do to prevent it? well, everything that's advocated here. posture, firebreathing, nauli, ballet workout. avoid constipation and straining on the toilet. never do crunches. that sort of thing.
bladder pressure with rectocele could be stool building up and taking up space and pressing on your bladder. fiber is your friend!
bluewendybee
May 28, 2009 - 2:33pm
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rectocele
Thanks for your quick reply. I guess it is fear that's getting to me. If this were all I'd been dealing with perhaps it would be easier. It just seems like one thing after another. I have been very sick for the past year and I am pretty beaten down already. I guess my biggest fear is I won't be able to have sex with my husband, and that everything will just fall out. I have heard so many horror stories and read far too much on the internet. I'm not sure of your age, but I just want my life back! I am only 40 and I just feel too young for any of this to be happening to me! I just have to hold on to hope! There is always hope. People like you are a true inspiration on this forum. Thanks for listening!
granolamom
May 28, 2009 - 2:44pm
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we're all too young!
I'm 36, and we are all too young to crawl into a hole and call it a day.
everything will NOT fall out. you can still have sex with your husband.
when I found my prolapse I was also coming off a low spell, within a few months I had strept throat, the flu, developed an occipital neuralgia, began to lose my hearing in my right ear and found a breast lump. I suspect that we are not alone in this. I suspect that my body was sending me messages to stop and take care of myself but I kept on misinterpreting those messages and treating each thing as it came along. it was the prolapse that finally got my attention.
I have this ridiculous theory I call my tetris theory on life. you know the game tetris? how the shapes fall and you have to place them well? well, when you start misplacing them, you have a harder time placing the next ones. but when you are doing well, its easy to keep on doing well. so I think when youre in a downward spiral, the momentum is that way. but once you change something, even if its only your mindset (which is not really an 'only') then you can begin an upward spiral. don't know if that makes any sense, but I like it.
I guess my message is, hold onto hope. throw yourself into this work, commit yourself to taking care of yourself - body and soul - and believe that things will change for the better. they did for me.
clavicula
June 1, 2009 - 12:47pm
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Hey, bluewendybee,
I think the most important thing is to relax, try not to panic. Yes, there is a possibility, that you'll find more prolapsed organs. I started with the cystocele (sometimes my cervix is lower, but I know that all organs move, so sometimes it is lower, and other times far high up), and last week I had some odd rectal pressure and have found my rectocele.
I am in peace with these things right now, try to focus on posture, diet, myself and my gorgeous family. I started the WW work 7 weeks ago, and my cystocele feels better at the end of the day, I feel less pressure and less urge, so that is good, right? See, there IS hope for you too (Okay, right now I am dealing with a nasty yeast infection, so I feel more bulgy, but I know it will pass).
I second Granolamom, just go with the posture and lifestyle changes, and don't worry what is gonna happen! You will get better if you really want.
I remember, Christine wrote in one of the older threads that women are extremely anxious about their prolapses, but when you peel the layers, they are most concerned about what might happen in the future . Don't do that, work on being comfortable NOW.
Oh, and BTW, I am "only" 28. Believe me, I know how you feel. :)
hugs
Liv